Ankit Arora — VP of Engineering

A result oriented professional with hands on experience in planning, executing, monitoring & governing of IT RISK in Banking & Finance domain while communicating regularly with stakeholders and providing daily/monthly reports to them utilizing various technology frameworks. Looking forward to explore new Risk management related roles within the organization. Summary: ● 19+ years of professional experience in IT industry in DW, Risk and related technologies. ● 8+ years of Risk & compliance and internal audit experience in Banking domain ● 14+ years experience including risk management , data quality, data governance, data profiling in BACI(B&F domain) ● Managing Operational Risk/Audit for many applications, provided multiple Risk management trainings and assisted in development of ~1800 associates within the bank ● Identified & reviewed more than 70 Self Identified Audit Issues(SIAI) for self and helped team mates drive them towards closure ● Hands on experience in development, DBA & production support in Teradata and related Data warehousing technologies while doing performance tuning from 2006 till 2020 ● Good knowledge of Teradata architecture, Development, and risk management framework ● Key player in the team, proactive, result oriented, strong analytical skills ● Public speaker and mentor at The Pangram’s Toastmasters Club @ BACI, GGN till 2019 ● Lead ‘My Environment’ CSR at BACI,Gurugram for 2016 & 2017 ● Voluntarily engaged regularly in CSR/ESG initiwtives since 2009 at BACI, Gurugram ● Received multiple Global recognition awards each year for multiple contributions to the LoB work, Technology Focus groups, Employee engagement activities and for active engagements in multiple employee networks within organizations ● With the networking I developed within the bank, I was chosen and invited to present my Topic "Managing Risk Easily" at DevCon, Texas in October 2018 and procured 10 year Business VISA to USA ● Presented my Topic in Global forum Devcon, Hyderabad in March 2023 on topic "Witty Secrets of Mindful risk"

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in Fintech with a strong focus on Risk Management and Data Governance.

Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India

Experience: 19 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Operational Risk Management
Risk Management
Information Security
It Risk Management
Internal Audit
Quality Assurance
Data Quality

Career Highlights

19+ years of experience in IT Risk and compliance.
Proven track record in managing operational risk and auditing.
Public speaker at global forums on risk management.

Work Experience

Bank of America

Vice President- Senior Business Controls Specialist (2 mos)

Assistant Vice President- Senior Risk Management Professional (3 yrs 3 mos)

Lead Analyst- Risk & Compliance (1 yr 2 mos)

Lead Analyst(Senior Manager)/Risk Control Officer (2 yrs 3 mos)

Senior Analyst & Emerging Risk Control Officer (4 yrs 11 mos)

Analyst (4 yrs 9 mos)

Toastmasters district 41

Sergeant at Arms, The Pangram's Toastmasters Club (1 yr 5 mos)

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Associate (9 mos)

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.

Software Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Software Engineer (3 yrs)

Education

Intellectual Property at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Safe certified scrum master at Scaled agile framework community

Post Graduate Diploma at Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

Master; at Galgotia's College Of Engineering & Technlogy, Greater Noida

Bachelor at Institute of Management Studies

at S D Public School muzaffarnagar

at Sarti devi raja ram public school Shamli

Schooling at St. Francis School

Ankit Arora

VP of Engineering

Gurugram, Haryana, India19 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

19+ years of experience in IT Risk and compliance.
Proven track record in managing operational risk and auditing.
Public speaker at global forums on risk management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in Fintech with a strong focus on Risk Management and Data Governance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Operational Risk ManagementRisk ManagementInformation SecurityIt Risk ManagementInternal AuditQuality AssuranceData Quality

Other Skills

Risk AssessmentRisk Management FrameworkRisk MitigationIT Security Policies & ProceduresIT Security Best PracticesIT Security PoliciesEntitlement and access managementIssue Identification & RemediationRisk Management ReportingInternal Process QA and AuditApplication and process auditingIssue ManagementReporting dashboardGovernance of Change ManagementStakeholder engagement

About

Experience

19 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Bank of america

6 roles

Vice President- Senior Business Controls Specialist

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Operational Risk ManagementRisk AssessmentRisk ManagementRisk Management FrameworkRisk Mitigation

Assistant Vice President- Senior Risk Management Professional

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 3 mos

IT Security Policies & ProceduresIT Security Best PracticesInformation SecurityIT Security PoliciesRisk Management

Lead Analyst- Risk & Compliance

Aug 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

IT Risk Management, Internal Audit, Entitlement and access management, Issue Identification & Remediation for around 600 associates of delivery function. Risk Management Reporting. Internal Process QA and Audit.

IT Risk ManagementInternal AuditEntitlement and access managementIssue Identification & RemediationRisk Management ReportingInternal Process QA and Audit

Lead Analyst(Senior Manager)/Risk Control Officer

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Risk Management, Application and process auditing, Issue Management, Issue identification and remediation, reporting dashboard to senior management, build risk culture across the teams, drive 100% compliance across the team, liaise with application managers and stakeholders to review security assessment, application governance and quality assurance for them.
Quality Assurance for applications in the bank.
Governance of Change Management processes within the bank.

Risk ManagementApplication and process auditingIssue ManagementReporting dashboardQuality AssuranceGovernance of Change Management

Senior Analyst & Emerging Risk Control Officer

Promoted

Aug 2015 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos

I got an opportunity to work as Senior Data Quality cum business analyst (Deposits domain SME) working for optmizing the standards for Deposits data mart. I worked for finding out deficiencies in Data for specific Key Business Elements for various Applications in Deposits and Customer domains. Understood data quality issues and remidiated them as patt of my key responsibilities. My job involved regular meetings with key stakeholders upstream and downstream and to understand the data requirements to make sure our data mart retained valuable and quality information. The data in our data mart which is also an authorized data source involved information relevant to regulatory reporting and financial reporting purposes. I have been a part of Risk Management project at the bank. I also reviewed Enterprise Data Quality standards implemented in the Bank.
I am Tera data Certified Master, Certified Risk Professional from Bank of America and ITIL certified. I have also taken a weeks training on PMP.
Risk Management, Application and process auditing, Issue Management, Issue identification and remediation, reporting dashboard to senior management, built risk culture across the teams, drive 100% compliance across the team, liaise with application managers and stakeholders to review security assessment.

Risk ManagementApplication and process auditingIssue ManagementReporting dashboardData QualityStakeholder engagement

Analyst

Oct 2010 – Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos

I started as a Data Quality expert working for optmizing the standards for the datawarehouse i.e. Teradata. I worked for finding out deficiencies in Data for specific Key Business Elements for various Applications in Deposits Domain. Also reviewed Enterprise Data Quality standards implemented in the Bank. I also got a chance to lead a team of few associates within the project to deliver to our client in Data Quality Governance. I was also chosen by LoB to work as a Business Analyst on a project in depoists domain.

Data QualityData GovernanceStakeholder engagementRisk ManagementApplication auditing

Toastmasters district 41

Sergeant at Arms, The Pangram's Toastmasters Club

Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Cognizant technology solutions

Associate

Dec 2009 – Sep 2010 · 9 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Projects, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune
Barclays, UK Retail Banking:
Barclays is one of the most admired bank in UK tailor made for the customers requirement ranging from savings account, current accounts, loans, mortgages t investment banking.
Description:
Gathering client requirement, preparing technical design document, coding and completing the unit & component testing.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Gathering and documenting client requirement.
Preparing Technical Document.
Coding according to the approved design &
Testing the code before delivering it to the testing team.
Executing jobs in production environment, validation of successful completion and informing the client about successful loading of data. This involves client interaction on daily basis.
Technologies used:
Teradata & Mainframes.
PERSONAL GROWTH
I gained knowledge about Banking domain.

Accenture services pvt. ltd.

3 roles

Software Engineer

Dec 2006 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

CONTRIBUTION
Performance tuning of the processes.
Major operational activities, code changes and application enhancements in Unix Scripts, BTEQ's & Informatica mappings and workflows according to business & operational requirements, Business interactions, Daily Reports to End Client.
Team coordinator, Requirement Analysis, Coding, Testing, implementation, Documentation regarding Maintenance, and Application Support.
Responsibilities regarding DBA Activities:
Monitoring the Teradata batch queries and user queries through Teradata Performance Monitor. Fine tune the ill performing queries and make respective changes in production environment.
Responsible resolving the issues and completing them within SLA timings.
Support application team as needed for any Teradata query tuning or application performance analysis. This includes being able to interpret EXPLAIN plans, collecting statistics, and root-cause determination for moderately complex to complex queries or jobs. Manage script(s) to regularly re-collect statistics on Teradata production tables. Production support of Daily Jobs.
Perform User management and Space management as part of DBA activities.
Providing Teradata trainings to more than 20 team members of the project using Teradata, clearing their doubts and assist them while coding on regular basis is also a part of my role in the project.
Development of Teradata Bteq's using Teradata utilities and performing DBA activities.

Software Engineer

Dec 2006 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

I Joined Accenture as an Associate Software Engineer and promoted as a Software Engineer within 1 year. I gained a lot of technical, Functional and professional knowledge and implemented it in during my project or in my personal life. I was also involved in an initiative named VAJRA where I helped more than 150 freshers as their mentor and help them settle down in the organization while taking care of their year long training needs.